The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-02-17
How the ''0ld, old Story" is Told in
Mexico.
LOVE- MAKING AND MARRIAGE AMONG THE
ARISTOCRACY OF SPANISH-AMERICA.
CnrreSnnnlpnce of the Journal

| CITY OF MEXICO, JAN, 1887. W hen my little
| neighbor across the way-the Senorita Juanita
Guadalupe Sanchez de Sandeval-was married.
l received an invitation to the festivities as one
deeply interested in the event, though but
slightly acquainted with the lady and her fam
i!y: for had not the whole course of her court
ship. la Meric0nO, gone on right under my
nose, as it We're? And had not lost unnllm-
bered hours of sleep. in hearty sympathy with
the damse to whom the guitar was nightly
twanged during the long and tedious process
here known as ''making the bear:'
Let me tell you all about it from the begin
| ming. In the first place, our gentle heroine Is
| the flower of the proud house de Sanueva,
| whose ancestors came over with Cortez from
| old CASTLE. OF course. having fourished for
| several centuries in the New World. this trans
| planted branch of the family tree was long ago
| engrafted with an admiNture of Aztec blood
| Il combination which is an improvement upon
either original stock. for the -Nestiz0s of MeNi-
combine all that is best in the fiery Castilian
| and stur,ter Aztec.
| Papa Sanchez de Sandeval is an importer of
| Spanish wines, and has "a bic warehouse in the
| Gale del Corpus Christi BODY of Christ street,
which, however. he seldom condescends to
| visit. having AN ddministiUdor who attends to
| the business and hands over the shekels. In
| this country the lower classes are simply beasts
of burden. expected to toll continuously from
the cradle to the grave, like machines that have
been "wounI up and cannot stop till run
| down at deaths door: x lie the more respect
| able and well-to-do citizens of the middle class
may engage in trade. farming and the various
| professions. But the naughty creme de Ia
| creme of the ar>tocracy are like Soomons ILL
/ les, in that they toll not. neither do they
| spin" but are simply ornamental-save when
| at rare intervals. they lend the weight of their
| a. VI. % i.
| cal scheme.
TIE MERE POSSESSION OF MONEY
| will not admit a family within this charmed in-
| ner circle. Though they may have the riches
| of Crusus ten times told and have not pedigree,
they are nothing. and a> well might an upstart
enecrin." attempt to get in among the old
| first families of Philadelphia or Baltimore.
| The result is that this highest strata of MeNi-
can society is really charming. representing
! centuries of refinement. education and honor
| whose vanity and eNclu>v, ness have good
| grounds to build upon.
The brothers Sanchez de Sandeval are two
| idle young hlood> about town - handsome fel-
| lows and harmless in their way. devoted to
| gambling. (as are all their class. and famous
for the fervor of their tlirtation>, which have
| several times eliminated in duels.
OF course the whole family knew all about
Juanita'> ove-atiair from the beginning - she
| being the only dau shter of the house. strictly
watched and guarded a> southern maidens are.
| The brothers satisfied themselves that the
woud-be wooer was party not ineligible.-
| being Il member of their own ''set, and thence
| forth carefully avoided that portion of the
| street beneath their sisters window, lest by
any chance they encounter the lover ''making
| eyes" at hel-when it would he their unwilling
| duty to demand an eNplanation if not to shoot
| him. Doubtless the parents reflected that in
| amy event the gay Lothario could not come near
enough to do any damage nm and was it not the
way OF the world that their beautiful darling be
"ooed, and maybe won by and by. like the rest
of her sen: Therefore all concerned feigned
| the profoundc>t ignorance Of the little romance
going on. and l"ter .tunHjds considerably re-
tired hours earlier than usual. leaving the low
er> free to ''>po"n-a long range-to their
hearts content.
To mean interested spectator over the way
the whole thing was >uprcnelv ludicrou>, and
yet deli@htfu,-;,S the "old, old story" ALWAYS
is in however odd a fashion it may be told. 1t
did not take long for all the neghbors to be-
come equally interested. and to discover that
the lover was no less parsonage than Senior
Don Jesus Marie Flores Y Rodriguez. "Je-
>u>" is Il very common name in Mexico. = but
for goodness sake. don't pronounce it i'll the
English fashion. Here it is something like
iiay-Soas. with the accent strong on the final
syllable. The tni-picre 10 this ponderous cog
noi'it,' , ''tarnc9 VIII la,u, .ne
the name nnrc and ,imulr- ,rror,lin" to Van
kue rendering. woull be
MIR. JESUS MARY FLOWERS.
Rut hc never n4ver cnull have ..nl,vcd the
hrnr" nor tw,nurI the linht ouit,r Till norujno
,,nIrr ,,.b m ,inrnm,nti.. titlri After Ju,uita
married him. if she ever chose to write, her
name in tuli If would mike surh ), .nre,l ~
this. Srnnra Juauta (;m,dalune Flores of
rn,l,rirurz ii, sanchez de S,n,l,v,lNfor in
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